David FriendDavid Friend joined Vanity Fair as editor of creative development in 1998, after serving as Life magazine’s director of photography. Friend is the author of Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) and is currently writing a book on the culture wars of 1990s and the sexual history of the Clinton years (for Twelve Books, an imprint of Hachette). Friend has won Emmy and Peabody awards as an executive producer of 9/11, a CBS documentary that aired in 140 countries, and served as executive producer of the CNN documentary The Flag, about the banner raised at Ground Zero by three firefighters on September 11, 2001. Friend has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and throughout the Middle East. He has mounted photography exhibitions on three continents. Along with Graydon Carter, Friend has edited nine Vanity Fair books, including Vanity Fair 100 Years (Abrams). He coordinated the magazine’s initial forays into books, e-books, television, and the Web, launching VanityFair.com. Friend’s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker.